Improvement in curry-combs



KELLOGG & SWEET.

Curry. Comb.

Patented Sept. 24. 1867.

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Letters Patent No. 69,100, dated September 24,1867.

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Be it known that we, WILLIAM I. KuLLooo, of Lansingburgh, in the countyof Rensselaer, and State of New York, and MILns SWEET, of the city ofTroy, in the said county and State, have jointly invented certain newanduseful Improvements in Curry-Combs, of which the following is afull andexact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, in\vhich-v r Figure 1 is an edge view,

Figure 2 a face view, and Figures 3 and t views of detached parts, allof a curry-eomb which embodies the distinguishing features of all theparts of our invention, and I Figures 5, b, and 7 represent three othercurry-combs, each embracing some one or more of the distinguishingfeatures of this invention, like parts being marked by the same lettersin the various figures.

One part of our invention consists in making a curry-comb with a seriesof single "comb-strips, A, figs. 4, 1, 2, 5, 7, each having a base, b,turned out laterally on only one side of the comb-strip, and with thebases 6 arranged upon and secured by rivets, c, to a continuousback-plate, D, with the toe edges 0 of the bases alongside of and closeto the heel edges f of the next adjacent ones, substantially as shown byfigs. 1, 2, 5, and 7 of the aforesaid drawings. In a curry-comb whichembodies this part of our invention,'the comb-strips A can generally bemade with loss expense, and the bottoms z'of the spaces-between theprojecting parts of the comb strips, are completely covered by the bases6 with a smoother and less broken surface, so that in using thecurryeomb hair and dirt will not be so apt to stick in, and can be moreeasily cleared out of these spaces than would be the case if eachcomb-strip had two or more partial bases turned out on parts of bothlateral sides of the r projecting part of the comb-strip, so as to leavethe bottoms of the spaces between the projecting parts of thecomb-strips with grooves, recesses, or ledges, and only partly coveredby the bases of the comb-strips, as in some curry-combs made before thisinvention: And in a curry-comb having this part of our invention, theback-plate D is stiffened and made double by the bases 11 between all ofthe projecting parts g of the comb-strips i A, so that the back of thecurry-comb is thereby made of greater andmore uniform stiffness orstrength and even thickness throughout, than would be the. case in acurry-comb formed as shown in fig. 6, with trough-like or doublecomb-strips H, riveted to a back-plate, D, so that the bases 6 of thosecomb-strips merely cover and stiffen alternate parts of the back-plate,and leave the back of the curry-comb composed of alternate sections, a;and z, of single and of double-thickness. And in making curry-combsaccording to the first aforesaid part of our invention, the back-plate Dcan be of any desirable different kind, quality, and thickness ofmaterial from the combstrips A, which could not be the case if the bases11 of the comb-strips A were lapped upon each, other and securedtogether by rivets, so as to thereby form a curry-comb of the strips Aalone, as has been heretofore practised.

Another part of our invention consists in making a curry-comb with aseries of comb-strips, A or H, having broad bases 6 or b, fastened byrivets c to a back-plate D which has corrugations k along thelongitudinal edges of of the bases of the comb-strips, substantially asshown by figs. 1, 3, 6, 7, of the aforesaid drawings, I so that whilethe parts of the back-plate that are between the corrugations 70 formseats for the bases of the comb-strips, the back-plate D is made stifferby the corrugations it just where it most needs to be strengthened,

along the longitudinal edges of the bases of the comb-strips where thoscbases cease or fail to cover and stiffen the back-plate, andconsequently the curry-comb has a much stiffer back than one having likecomb-strips fastened by rivets to a back-plate of like thickness, butplane or fiat, without the corrugations, as shown in fig. 5,

In carrying out the aforesaid parts of our invention in manufacturingcurry-combs, we commonly prefer to have the extreme end comb-strips Iformed and turned on the ends of the back-plate D itself, as indicatedin figs. 1, 3, 5, and (3, and generally make the comb-strips and theback-plate of sheet metal, and cut or punch them out and bend or swagethem into the proper shapes, and rivet them together by means of anysuitable devices well known-to makers of curry-combs. I I

What we claim as our invention,'and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is---- P In a curry-comb, a series of single comb-strips, A,having abase, 6, turned on only one side of each comb strip, when the bases ofthe comb-strips are arrangedwith their longitudinal edges 0 f closetogether, and fastened by rivets c to a. back-plate, D, substantially asherein set forth.

We also claim, in a. curry-comb, a series of comb-strips hlving basesfastened by rivets z: to aback-plate formed with corrugations I: alongthe longitudinal edges of the bases of the comb-strips, substantially asherein set forth.

In testimony. whereof wehereunto set our hands this tenth day of May,1867.

- WM. P. KELLOGG,

MILES SWEET. Witnesses:

FRANK P. KELLOGG, W. T. KELLOGG.

